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THE BLOOM OF LONG AGO
^ ^ H««r Oft lOoastbeTuiifhBi past,
6tai witb Tfaelinw ot yoath a ^ w ,
S|iriac<n> the flown that faded fut—
The soented bkwm ot long ago!
Whan IB tte heart that woold tarKofe
HW mile, the look, the wannembraoel
Amid the yean we treasure j e t
Tkeeontoor of the flitted taoe.
Deip la the labyrinth of tinM,
Hiachievoas shino blade crei and Use:
And fairy fingen beat a rbyme
OB COIN'S bow for me and yocu
I find a kttar hidden long
FVom aoininer'% sun and winter^B snow,
Aad to it eUngs a ohen^ed aong
llMt kMps the tone of long aga
Wa Bvrcr quite forget the joya
Beoorded on life^ primal page;
Tbe k n g h t * gay o( girls and boys
M b sweetly on the ean ot age.
' Aenm a path stiU bright and fair,
AchiMitswinging toand tro;
And meaaety twinas in golden hair,
- TtelovdybkMaiot longaga
Tha WHicaoiight by ns to-day
bother yean was grandly song;
Tin tea ttet flite across ate wny
W« nflen fcisnd wh«a we wan yooBg.
ft h tiw hand we cannot see
That leads na, when the son k km,
Back to the menory hasnted ka
Bieh with the blooai of long aga
Goatea to a e , for itis tnn,
loaraiMit what yoor station be,
I^Btaomewhere there's a lyeD for yon—
A i|ieO of love and fanta^r*
i n » has not fait a v a n iM
Tloach hk at twiligfaVs g e n i l e i ^ .
Or seen eneige from sbadowhnf-
A sweetheartoC the hmg agol -
BIpckeyw end bine! 0!whafe%%^
They weave for all who own teir sway!
where k he whose son^ can tea
OB»4>a)f ttie conning they
Ttay are the nulesbmes at tke road
Wa tiead to where the waten flow
Mwsm OS a i ^ tiie veiled abode-
^Bayana tfaetovM of long ago.
—T. a. BwiangK
THE DIAMOND CRESCENT,
TIM day was bitter ccld, and the
crowds konTing &long Broadway tamed
Mitberto r ^ n o r to left in dieir haste
t» nacih hoiM aod the comforts of -the
fireside.
I WW ahtuig in my office on fite
^groond floor, watdiinff the restles people
• o d iftikwo^iiang as I have a habit of
^Ji^xmlhe aiffctences in human
( - ^ n n y atteatioa was sod-treadiY
apon
d b m n d cnioeittdf
Befoi« 1
^ b s c v l p t i o i i
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
i n A d v a n < » e *
ERSFIELD S o ^ b a o v i p t l f m
ONE DOLLAR A TEAR,
i n A d i r a n o o *
VOLUME 11.
while teadiing music in my native vil-lage
in the West it happened that one
winter's night some years since—a night
not unlike what this promises to bo—my
father and I were startled by moans at
our windows. Investigation shoWed a
woman and child. Both were Bearly
frozen, and the woman, once in the
h e a t ^ loom, swooned. We summoned
a physician, but she recovered consc ous-ness
only to lose it a ^ i a until we found
that she was dying. Toward the
last ^ e poor creature muttered wildly
and inc<merently, and seemed to be
in mortal terror of punishment for
some great crime. Just at the last, how-ever,
A e became entirely rational, and
made frantic efTorts with her dyinjt
breath to tell us all about the child; but
the most we could understand waB that
Eva belonged to wealthy parents, and
that something would prove her identity.
Sewed up in the rags wrapped about the
baby girl we discovered the diamond
crescent, which is strangely engraved in
cif^ers, nnintelUgiblc to a stranger, but
no doubt significant enough to the
owners, whom we nalnntUy suppose to
be little Eva's parents, for this was evi-dently
what the poor woman meant to
convey.
"My ftither and I accepted the trust
thrown upon us by that mysterious death
as a commission from heaven," said Eva's
gtiardian angel, with a soulful smile
which discl(»ed a rich, beautiful nature,
"and we set about to find the parents.
For a long time we advertised, but to no
. Many replies came, but to none
people did our little Eva belong.
At last, after my fother's death, w h i^
occurr^ three years ago, certain that
Eva's parents were not to be found ia
the West,"! sold my proMrty there, com •
ing to New York in the^ lope of obtain-ing
pupils here, and at the same time
goM 1 m l talent to push the work of
establiiMng my darling's identify. We
have not b m very successful so tai.
I felt myself in a dilemma. Here was
a beautiful young womhn who had evi-dently
sacrificed all her worldly goods to
what she believed a divinely appointed
qiission, and for all I knew had at this
moment neither money nor food, cer-tainly
not fuel for the morrow's bitter
weather, for little Eva bad innocently
given that fact away, and yet she would
not make a moan which would give mc
the cne tcher neces«ty, or make it iws-sible
for me to offer pecuniary assistance.
What should I do about it alW I
cogitated over and over again, "fietire
at once, now that the busine^ for which
ybueune is ended," said the conVen-
:tionaUties. "But yon cannot leavethese
twq penniless and friendless a big
city," urged the heart within me, and
the latter argument seemed the. stronger
of the two, so I broke forth at last, awk-wardly
(for I am not a man of tact any
t^rae},* to the point *'You accepted
the care of Uttle Era «a a commission
ftoto Heaven wlwn- « strange fate
.door,.§Qd. why m ^
WILTHERSMELD, CONN., FRIBAY, FEBRUAKY 10, 1888,
daughter of the banker, sttilen hY i
former servant, the ofily ttbjfefel tilal
could bo discovet^ td bitdrl moiiey for
het retUril. Ift orttef probably to render
the schemiB successful the child had been
taken far away, where it wou'd bo diffi-cult
to trace her. The mysterious death
of the woman had interferred with the
or ginal plan and left no clue by which
the agonized parents could possibly dis-cover
their child, and long since she had
been given up for dead.
In the course of its progress from per-son
to person, the story of the young
music teacher and her little charge had
reached the banker and his wife, who
hastened to convince themselves that
Eva was the:!: lortg-lost darling; the
diamond ^Jrescfent which had been stolen
for that very purpose no doubt furnish-ing
eridence, if more had been needed
than the child's great resemblance to
her mother.
It is needless to say that the grateful
parents insisted upon adopting Adelle.
into their hearts and homes as a daugh-ter
no less th.tn their legitimate offspring;
and for me they declared eternal friend-ihip.
AVith this I should have been quite
satisfied undeir brdihatr circumstances,
bttt—
"Nonsense," roguishly says Adelle,
who is looking over my shoulder as I
write, "what a common-place ending
you will have there,-love and marriage,
and all that sort of thing."
"But will it not be true to the life!"
I demand. And a beautiful light warms
up her dear face. "End the story as
you please, Tom." she says.—ilTrtc Tori
Pre^
A Thiers Tintitnde.
Spoiling of the late Governor Marma-duke
cdUs to mind a story of one of his
experiences during a recent visit to New
York. He was in the vicinity of Wash-ington
square late at night On his way to
catch & street car to return to the St.
James Hotel, where he was stopping.
In going along in a very dark portion of
the street he was accosted a man, who
inquired the time of sight.
Unsuspecting as he always was, he took
his watch from his pocket and handed it
to the man, with the remark: " ] ^k
for yourself; I'm near-sighted." The
man looked at Governor Marmaduke in
astonishment, and then catching a good
look at his face Said: "Thank you,
Gorernor," and handed him back the
watch.
The Governor was greatly puzzled to
know who it was, but Iwfore he had
time to inquire the man hurried out into
daricness. Sometime after this a detec-tive
recalled this incident to the Gov-ernor,
and told him that the man had
s t o p p ^ him with the intention of steal-ing
his wateh, but he was surprised at
the Governor banding it to Wa, and
concluded that. IfonSadalce- ^ p m t e d
the man's n i a e mteh
UP £0 READBY:L9.]IRII^LT HIRIWTJ^OCKED
S t i K D A Y ' S SERMON.
O N E O P R E V . D R . T A I . M \ O K \ «;
S T E R I I L X O D I S C O U R . S K S.
S n t j c c t : "The Veil of Modesty.'
TEXT: Tha <iuMn VaakUr^f^uedloeonit. -Bsthec 1., la. ^ .
If you wul a c c ^ my arm i will e«cort you
into a throne room. In this fifth sermon of
the series of sermons there arc certain wosian-ihciea
wWch I Wish tb commend, but
I ^ t t i n g them In dry abstiaction. I
{ntSeiit ybu their impersonation in one who
^dom, if ever, gets sermouic recognition.
We stand amid the piOacfis o( Shushan.
The pinnacles are aflame with the morning
light. The columns rise festooned and
wreathed, the wealth ot empires flash'n-{
from the grooves; the ceilings adorned with
images bird and baut^ and acmes of
prowess and conquest. The walls are btl.ig
withshiddL and emblazoned nntil it seems
that the whole round- of sfdendors is ex-hausted.
.Each ardi is a migu^ leap ot
i ^ t e c t n M achievemdlt. ^Gttldett stai«,
shitting down 0n glowidg tteabteaue. Hang-
Cmbhji&red in which min^
^ blfiehess ot the sky. the greennass of
the grass and the whiteness of the sea foam.
Timistries hung on sflver rings, wedding to-gethw
the ^ l a r s ot maiUe. FavlUona
rehchingontin every direction. These for
repo^ filled with luxuriant couches, in
which wearr limbs sink untU aU tet:^ is
These forcarousal, whereKings
weaiy until all
suImM - — -
drink
Amaring spectacle.
^wn over stairs of ivoiy on shields of gold.
Floors ot stained marble, sunset red and
- black, «nd inlaid with gleaming pearl,
it V&ion a kingdom at one swallow
jfLight of silver
Why, It seems as if a heavenly ot
amethyst, and jacinth, and topai, and
chiysoprasns had descended and alighted
up«» Shushan. It aeems as if a billow
u celestial glory had dashed clear over
hMVen> battlements upon this metrop-ohs
of Persia. In connecUiHi with
palace thM« is a gardai, wh?rc
^ o ttughty nien of tic«^gn Uinds are
WUed a a banqu«i Under the spread ot
oak, abd Und«i, and acacia, the tables aro ai^
The brrath of honeysuckle and
the air. Fountains leap n
spray struck through wit!
fills up
hght, the with,
lainbows faUing in crystalline bapKsm upon
into the]
flpwwing shrubs-then
c h m ^ ol marble, a n d ^ e n i n g o u t h^
^ th«e into pools swirling With the finny
t n b « of f<H«ign aquariums, bordered with
scarlet anemones, hvpericums, and many col-
^ r a n n n c n l n a Heats of rarest Uidand
b e ^ smoking up amid wreaths of aromatica
The vases fiUed with i ^ c o t s and almottds.
TTw basket jiled dp with aj^cotS, and
dates, ^ figs, hnd oFangee, ahd pomegran-ates.
Melons tastefully twined with leaves
of .acacia. The hi%ht waters of Euteus
filling the urns, and svteatdng outside the
nm m flashing beads amid the traceries.
Wme from the royal vats of Ispahan and
^ r ^ in bottles of t l n ^ shell, and Uly
shMedcnw of silvw, ^ flagtms and tank-a
r d of sdid g<fld. The mnsio rises higher,
and ttie revelry breaks out into wQder trans-port,
and the'wine has flushed the cheek and
iondied the brai^ andloote than aU other
voices are hiccough oFSa Mbriates, the
gobble of fools, and the song oC the drank-aros.
.
banqoMt. —
fair chaiioeb Throw- no ohdticie ii) the.way.
If they coine out ahead in the race, cheer
them. It you want to smite any. smite the
ma'e teadiers; t hw can take up the cudselA
tor themselves. But keep your hands oft of
defenoeleas woman. FatW may be dead,
but then are enough brothers left to demand
and sea that they get justice.
WitUn a stone's throw ot this bufldhig
therad(edyearsagoonaof the principals of
our puMlcAOiOO'A Shrli^bemtwenty-fiye
years at that post She bad left the touch ot
reflneimnt on a multitude of ths young. She
ha>l, olff or her slander jtorsej given Utwally
h u n d r ^ ot dd'JM f ^ i M destitate who
came dader her observation as a school
teachefc A ddoeised Aster's children were
throwA np^n Uw hands, and she to(dE care ot
thran. ISbe^aklndnlothertothem, while
she mofheted the whole school: Worn out
with wirainginthesickand dying room of
one otithe household, she hersalt came to die.
d the school book and at the same
volume of her Christian fiddity; and
»went through the gates they cried:
are they who came out ot great tribu-id
had their rob^ washed and made
SebhMdof the Limb."
ftre a U s t t ^ and the world
' I them of not, Headed tcknowl-
W—h en Soartoil,, the wit and
a S h a . i ^ briUtant, was
a ^ V ^ I M ^ Itrae: d« MUilteMi be. Was
Rsked^by the notary what he proposed to
8ettie';i{^n (nadeii^oiseUe. The reply was:
"ImiiAetehty! The names of the wives ot
klnga'die with them; the name of th6 wife of
Sjartto will Uve always." Inahigtoand
aens\upon all wom-si who do their
Ml will settle immortalityt Kotth^
lity of earthly tame, which is mor-the
immortality e e l e ^ . And they
torever and ever! Oh.theopportu-
I every woman has ot bdi
MT.t live the more I adi
tag a queen!
Imira good
And I have oome to (drm my
ot tfattdiaracterat aman bylUsap
nreoistton o^ non-&i4trecia13on ot woman.
It a wan A depressed idetl ol womanly
(AaniAer be is a bad man, and there is tto
exoei^oa to this rule. The Writinfftof Ooethe
ean Mter have any stleh attitetiou tor me as
BhahNiearei be &naeiMarljlr all thi
d)ar#iE^ of the gfi^dt 0«rmart nave S'>me
kind'-Of . tdipitadd. THera is his Mariana
Anrelia of m»ny intrigues, and his
the termagant, anl h's Melina the
.aul his Baronrss, and his Count-ess,
•nd.thei'O. is seldom a womanly charac-ter-
r in all bis voluminous writing
thaVMbuld be wortlty of residoice m
a eeapecteble coal cellar, yet pict-ured
Md dramittiel, and emblazoned
till an the litjrarvworld is' compelled to S3e.
No,{^l Give m'e Wi Jiam Shakespsare's idea
ot^i^4Ui; an 11 sea it ki Deademona, and
CoiWia, and fio3ai:Md, and Imogen, apd
H e ' ^ jind liend^on^, aild Viola, and tia
b7lWand Sylvia, w d Ferdita, all df them
Wits enough faults to prove tl
bat«ougfa kindly characteristics to give us
the jhfthor's idea ot womanhood, hU.Lady
M a ^ t h only a dark Itackgroand to bring
onClhesnpreme loveliness of his other female
the _
_ ^ woman of Amsri^a! rise to your op-poHwity.
Ba no slave to pri Je, or woriiUi-iiWJ,"
or s ^ Why ever crawl in the dust
whea yon can mo-ant a thron?f Be-queens
unib God forarer. Hail Vashti!
A^ain:-1 want you to consider Vashti the
vajfa,!. Had she appeared beroreAhashnerns
a a l m court on thatday, with her face un-id,
(he would havadMcked alt
ot Oi^iehta} s:d«ty, juid the'MlyliiMi
Aeirintoxl^tioit £iilanda4«M —
t h ^ sober momente
her^ Assome flowfflts 81
Jineand lathe ta
poor as toicknowIedgeheiraoqtUlntvicedtip
Vashti the ^Mrifice. Ah, you and I have
seen it itUny. a timei. Here Is a home emptl-aced
witb beaiitf. llIKthilt refinement,
and bodks, ani wealfH ca« do for
that home has been done; bttt -Ahs^^
nerus, the husband and the father, is tak-ing
hold on paths of s ' a He is gradually
g^ngdown. After a while hewillfloander
and strugrg> like ft wild beast in fia hunter'<
net-—further a w v from (lol, further away
from the right. Soon the bright apparel of
the children will turn torogs; soon the houw-hoM
song will become the sobbincot a broken
heart The old story ov<sr again. Brut-U
Centaurs breaking up. the marriage feast ot
Lapithifi. The house fuU of outrage, ani
crueltv, and abctafination, while trudginn
forth from the palacd lOtfe are Vaahti ami
herchildrau. There are home<t reurasanted
in this housa this morning tha*: are in dancer
of Bildl a b r ^ i n g up Oh Ahasueru^.
that you shotild 9tanl in a hom% by
a diss-'patxl life destroyttftf the peace
and comfort ot that nomi. Gq-1
forbid that your chikLren s' oikl
ever hive to wring their hands, ani hare
' p^ut their hands at them as f i e y pm
tvn the atrMt, and say, "Ttere coea a
„ onkartSi chiM.^ God forbid that the lit-tle
feel diou'd ever have totrudgo the pith
of poverty and wretdiedneMi God forbid
that any evil spirit, bom of t h e w n i c u i or
the btttndy fli^, should come forth an 1' nt>-
fodt i & l t g i f ^ i and. w:th a blasting, b'i:
NO. 10.
FOB FARM AND 6AB0BN.
OM SkM^lV** BMIMM*.
Many larmerj keep old sheep too long,
or ttntU they are so-old that they fail to
return good profits. A writer on the
subject sensibly advises that fanaera
should not purchase old sheep under any
circumstances, but should fatten and
i sell to tha butcher every old sheep
which may be in their flocks. Old
sheep which have even partially good
teeth may be'fattened at a profit, but it
is a losing business to keep such sheep
in the flock, and the best sheep-famen
will pick out all sachanimaU fatten
and sell them as soon M praetloaUe.
JBnrteivOMMi
Aa Eo^ish dairyman, I h Geotge
Simpson, hat found to his CMt, Ihat t l»
uiual practice of drying co&tiwMWS
milkers, giving from t w d r t to aixtetn
- lustcad of trying to dry cowBgiyiag
large quantitiee of milk, he now finds it
Oh the women and men Of sacritfcs ara
eoing to take the brightest coronabof haaven!
This woman ot the text gave no pa!atial resi-
Belle, burning on the Mis^ippi river.
Blndso, the engineer, declared he would keep
the bow of the boat to the shore tilt a'l were
off, and he kept his promise. At his posN
scorched and blackened, he perished, but Ire
saved all the passengers. Two versee of pa- I
thetic po3try describe the scene, but ths
verses are a littia rough, and so I changed a
word OP two;
Throngh Ue hot bltok breath of the bnmlag
Jim wad'o'* voice wa* heard,
. AS I Bar all had tra!4 In his MabbomtM,
^ And knew lie keep his word.
Am n n ' i 7«a*te (tofa t hn aU got off
AFOM the Smokestacks N9!
j^M Bladao'k Aott Went nft aturei
Id thtf Smoke of the Prsble BdM
He weren't no (iinti bnt^at Jcdjmelit
I'd mn mr chance wtta JitB,
LonKilAe of tome plont tantiemes
That wonMnt ihaka handi with him.
HeM Eeen his doty, a dead tare thing.
And went for It thats and then,
Aod Christ Is not Kohij; to IM too hard
On a man that died for men.
Once more: I want you to look at VaAti
thesilent. Yon do not hear any outcry from
this woman as die goes forth from the palace
gatei I'rom the very dignity of har nature
^ kit<Mr ^ N will be no yodferwtion.
SdmetinleSi m life it is necessaiy to make a
retort; somitimeS in life it is necessary to
reeist; but there are crises Wh(« the moet
triumphant thing to do is to keep silence.
TJie philcsopher, confident in his newly dis-covered
pr.ncipV waited tor the coming ot
more intelligent geneiations, willing Uiat
men should laugh at the lightning roi,
and cotton gi^ and ^stemboa^onii^g for
aI^oo. OaUJe^ c o i ^ ^ ^ b y " m t t ^ a -
ticians,and monks, and cardinals, caricatured
everywhere, yet waiting and watching with
his telescope to see the coming up of stelbor
to-entorcements, when tho stars in t h^
^COunes wouldfl^t for the Copemkwi tys
" sit ting down hi comidete blindness
stowait fOrthe^coming of the
n^wOiAd b ^ h i * mcinwMirt
hia ( nm
&
" taok aad M
PRINTERS.
FinMaMi Wwk M w a i s pi
• I I * Mmw
better to turn them looae in a box and
feed them on oat straw. By this meant
the flow ot milk is i ^ u c e ^ aad grad.
nally they dry themselves^ no«Til efleett
fbliowiag. The practice of toddenlj
checking the flow of milk ot good
milkers, by the common method,
resulted, in his ca», in three of hia cows
slipping their calvea within forty-eight
hours aiter the drying proceaa began.
Whenever it was attempted to dry laigc
milkeri at once, the o^^ans became
inflamed. Daiiymen will find it highly
important to pay particular attention to
their cows, especially those ot the Jer-sey
and Onemaey breeds^ which an
great milkers.
CiMMlcsl a a d HMwrea.
The resulte of five years of experi-ments
with commercial aad bam-yard
manurea on the Asricultural College
Farm at Colutubia, Ma, as set forth in
a recent report on the same l ^ Prot J.
W. Sanborn, are briefly as follows:
"In good years, with a plentiful sap-ply
of moisture, chemical manures gare
a iMger wheat yield than yard maaurey
while in dry years the result was the r«-
veise. The gain «f laad treated witb-chemicals
over that on which ao fertil-izer
of uiy kind wai used was noetly or
powihly wholly doe to the aitrogea M
the chcmicalsL (%ilwd«d* mxf km m ^
iQiriy aiMd, aad ft k n e b wiiaM^-
B00X8,' MWBLBX^
v o f n m
•m.w. watMi,
CnOULA19, WIBBim
s a d t w y Uai Imi^iiliji
i a p i a i aM taayeQkn.A ttafanmkli&H^
kcBatak
They had eTideatly yWtod thl
poaltry-hooae ia ttie abaeace ot th* mi^
aad thought tbey had aecuied a rapp^
of food for the winter. But poiaj
made quiok work with all of them bat
the eld oae, aad after a while she got
him too, after, evidently, a Mvere eoa>
test. The next oae wai roiled a* lOM
as his presecoa was diieovered aad the
eat caught blm ia tha fletd. Bat a rat-cat
is dMrt-Uved aad a poultry, bmmi
cat reqaires special traiaiag. Whea
a y preeent young oat w«t iatraiueed t»
her charge, her firet act waa to t M k a
young ehtckea, bat she wna kiadly
persuaded to let it go vaiajarei.
A Uttte paina were takea to shew
her all tho ehiekeas aad tha*
they beloaged there, aad she aovar
• a a ^ t aaotiier. Cat-doors ia th» doora
adiatt her ta tlM itabtaa f M a t t t f M lb
try-hooM^ and sftagtaMda MMTMIIIIIB
aad all plMes w t e a g n t a b l A M*
baa all tba prMlagw ot UM H M M ^ Ik
the daytime, goeaaad camm •tyliMMi^
b a t a t a i ^ t a b a i s a i w a y a o a d a t g ^ Site
isoa familiar t m s with tH OaMi*
malsaadniba haiMlfagaiM* OckMa
as she moTe* aboot the hooM u awee»
cernedly n ifaiaai tka l « | i UuKf
member of the Ihmilf who pmhrnt
She is tquany at homa on tha baok aT a
cow or hona or ia a toekla^dmir I9
the flre. Bot w«« to tba talk w m a n
that veatorea iate W domialaa. Qjto
iswortkmore AuT a nagaa IMA «l
trapa aad a sbapfol o i;
An nihtoii ffeimer tayt la
York World: "Ftem i*ag«i
tha
laaad
occasiaaalrepaiBtiag I f f ^ B O fWtfMi
battopreMrretlwm. Tkh k ft
•ay bandy maa o* b«y caa do i a WMR
Unc. Begia by t h o t o v ^ y ahtaiag
the wagoa aad gettiag all g M * oS
Ihohaba. Wherapaiaft fa n H i f l f r atf
smooth dowa with aad old
tha whole wagoa with
yoahaTe a a k a o M O ^ M r r k a i tkiw.
let t h e wagoa a p oa baam plMtd'
der the ules» dart it aMft
lopaiat. For tba m a i i i f fHk
wheeh chooaa a fsod, •Ii»ii1lii|
colors with whilahad for
boy tha colon OmtaoM s m ^
tad pot ia t i a bniHk
mixed ai t U ahaip vVit
a littia
wd
- ^ J t
n e ^ ^ l d k i i d e r a s n o t
. j a t o Botioeia my first g ^ c e that Im^
gsmeats, a i l i o u ^ •crapnlonsly neat,
were lar from expensive, nevertiieless an
-asaocountable excitcment took posses-sion
of me,aDd I ntdied to her assistance,
demanding of the officer authoritativ^,
*'UpoB what charge do you make this
a r r e s tr
Insfiautivdy teoogalzii^a friend, the
tenified child besought nte aot to allow
tiu officer to take lier to jail.
"Look at that pin, the litde thief.'"
tiie officer said rov^ly, making a move-jaeat
to drag the <^ild away.
1 commanded, indignantly
mm, for I had made up my mind that
tba diild should at least have a hearinir
••Who says she is a tiaef r
my 80,'* returned Oeofficersharply.
" I kaow 'em, thesestiert gamins, and a
predoBB lot they are] Oie's a regular
joaa, diis one is."
"Indeed, air, I am not a thief I Oh, I
L^; amn o ^ l awmun uoi/ta*i i I± dUiiUdnJl' tI. mean two UdOo
' . ^wwiiir. 1 wanted to find my own papa
^-.-r ^ ICM Adelle s i ^ the crescent wiU
^ u have been so k f ^ to m j ^ ^ littl®
ifterbeitij
t n n , lie told
ivm that I will not believe'yon intend
less to me." *
"God knows that I do not," I replied,
feelin^^y. "Pardon me, but your little
char;^ has give me some idea of how you
aredtuated; I
lurked some sinister motive there before
die said: *'Sir, your offer is a very ex-traordinary
one."
"Not more so than your own course in
sacrificing yourself and all that you pos-sessed
to th's child's cause."
''But that was the will of Heaven for
me," Miss Adelle said with deep serious-ness,
"Icould not do less. But," she
added, after a moment, we do indeed
need afriend."
- "Po, you suppose that I would'tres-pass
longer upon your privacy were it
not aof' I asked earnestly, "nay, trust
me and you shall have no cause to re-gret
i t !"
j "nieu Miss Adelle apoke out like the
j l a ^ s o u l e d woman that she was:, "I
Hie officer laughed coarsely. "That ^^ W Eva's
faflne,iBi't it! Highly dram^t^c for one
Chinese Table Etiquette.
As soon as the guests are seated on the
-.- ^ V- X .. . J mate, two, and sometimes three, small,
u l i ^ ' - i I'H ^ low tables are brought to cach. On the
you toth while you n « a a fnend." ^ • immediately to front of him the
Miss Adelle searched m y f a ^ long and i ^ e s t finds se/ea little covered bowls,
earnestly to d sOTver if pere^nce there | Qn the second talle will bo five other
bowls. The third, a very small table,
aaidy find."
•0 y o ^ . Yon see 1 know 'em; they
come in all ages from "
^ "Officer^"! interrupted him, for
Take up the
h&nd, re-
LP™
feared. They were "at the end of their
i&odtj, and no immediate prospect for
ccoiitd was gathering'^now. d ^ p i t e " t h e ! ™orft opened before thim. Miss
TOW, and I <Bd not much enjoy Adelle, whose musical gifte had b^n
the next twenty-
M i i g
* my position as one of the central figures",
. " j ^ ^ w i i h n>e into my oSice while we
b t e <be little one's story. I am con-
Tiaced that you have no more right to
aiiest this child because die wean a costly
ornament when walking quietly along
the public street than yon would have to
arrest the wife or daughter of a million-aire
wder like dronmstences. You
know who I am, and if the facte do not
corroborate the story this diild tells I
promise to deliver her over to you in the
aext few hours."
"AU ri^t," sud the officer, "take
her; yon'Ube wiser in
four hoon, I'll wager.^
. Aad so I was, but not just as the of-ficer
anticipated. -The child told me a
riagnkr stoir between her sobs, and
facte proved if strictly true, indeed, as
I had the little one in my office before
the fire, warm and comfortable except
for the effecte of her fright, I had time
to aee that her features and expression
were those of a youne princess of the
blood, dear-cnt, exquinte aod truthful
She was as far removed from the youth-
. fnl unfOTtunates brought up in vice and
crime as is heaven from eartL
Hie gist of her story was that sho was
a g r ^ man's daughter, and the only way
Ae weald ever find her papa was by the
erescen^ which he wonla recognize. She
KT^ with JGss'Adel^ a mode teacher,
.aadthOT had very little auwey. Miss
A d ^ utd cried that jnoming becaiise
their cpal was aearly gone and ^ had no
moay t^ bay more.
"When Adelle had gone oat I put the
cresceat on, and came to find papa, for I
knew that if he saw that he would buy us
•ome mora wood and coal," the child
ooaflded to me earnestly.
I hailed a cab at the conclusion of the
tale and took the diild to the street and
-aamber giym me. A tall, graceful
woBian <H twenty-five or thereabout wel
oomed as with emotion.
"Why, my dear Eva," die cried, clasp-ing
the duld to her, *'where have you
-beea( I have been almost crazy with
anxiety about ybdl"
Bat jast at .this moment Miss Adelle
aain^- sight of one, and dnwiiw herself
^ t h dignity she w a i t ^ -for an ex-
' tfhaation of my mesence thei*. Stating
I briefly r asked h v to tell me J ahoott^ di^d.^'
aaid, mottoning aw
aeatod arifhgrBoe X have rardy aeea
''The a d e goardiaoship of.l|i
i tt iia^t&Bi^y," the ' kftd^i^arWadMsym^
recognized as pre-eminent in hernatiye
village, had thought it would be easy
should hold three bowls,
chop-sticks with the ri^ht
move the cover of the rice bowl with
the same baud, transfer it to the left,
and place it to the left of the table.
Then remove the cover of the bean soup
and place it on the rice cover. Next
teke up the "rice bowl with the right
hand, pass it to the left, and eat two
monthfuls with the chop-sticks, and
then drink once from the soup bowL
And so on with the other dishes—
never oinitting to eat some rice between
each mouthful of meat-, fish and vege-tables,
unless you forget which is your
mouth and which is your right hand, ot
have become so giddy that you can not
tell your left hand from a chop^stick or
your rice bowl from your third teble.—
Chicago Tribwe.
Origin of "Halloo" and "Hurrah."
Among exclamations in common > use
'Halloo!"-and "Hurrah" have curious
origins attributed vo them. It is said
e n o u ^ to secure pupils in a grsat city I by the author of the "Queen's English''
likeJCew York, but alas! from bitter cx-{that the people of Charnwood forest,
perience she had learned that this com- { Leicx;stershife, when Ihey desire to hail
mercial Mecca towards which so many ; a person at a distance, call out, not "hal-young
aapirante for success turn their | loo!" but "hailoup!" This he imagines
ffooootteetteeppss held but disappointment for is a survival of the t'mes when one cried
her. to another, "a loup! a laup!"or as we
a loan, and I, f n turn, p r o m i s e d her i P?n«iise,J which s gnifies ttat all sol-pupils
from among my f r i e n d s , t a k i n g i d'^rs who fell fighting valiantly went
5pon myihonlders the doubtful task of i straight to heaven. "Prithee" obvi-coercingallthc
fathere and mothere of ously » corruption of " I pray thee;"
my acquaintance into giving their chil- T^^ile "marry" was originally in Pohsh-dren
over to her training, beginning with! tipes » method of swear ng by the Yir-my
own married sister. And it was' g>«» M a r y . « / < « Tw/
fortunate that I made my beginnins;'
there, else it is probable that I should
have miserably failed in my undertak-ing,
for my sister—^Mrs. Merwln—^in-formed
mc scornfully when I laid my plan
before h e r : ' 'I cannot be thankful enough,
Tom, that I am the first one to whom
you unfold your Quixotic scheme, for
lid be more ruinous to a
Jim risk's Dodge.
Years ago when the New York Central
and Erie railroads were engaged in a
diesperate and destructive battle of cut
rates, Jim Fisk played a shrewd dodge
on Commodore Vanderbilt. The freight
rates from Chicago to New York city
nothing coulu -- - j were so low that there was no profit in
girl's prospects, situated as Miss Adelle] transportation. Fisk seized the golden
is, than to have a bachelor like yourself opportunity to buy catte; shipped the
c.ittle over the Commodore's road, and
so blocked the Commodore's transporta-tion
facilities that the Central -wai
obliged to refuse all other freight. Fisk
then put up the priece of freight on the
Erie, and was not only able to do a lu-crative
businfss while the Central was
carrying cows at a loss, but he was also
going around advocating her causc.
Just take me to see the girl, and if she
is not a mere adventuress you may count
upon my doing what I can for her."
That my sister was wholly satisfied
with Miss Adelle will go without the
saying when I. tell you that she took her
lurae within the week as musical gover-to
her own children, and personally , able to get his cows to the market, via
solidted patronage for her among the
"dear 500 friend*."
Iniem than three months from the day
that I first discovered Eva, Miss Adelle
found herself with more work upon her
hands thslu she could easily-attend to,'
and I found myself—but no, I will tell
yon about that later, for now comes the
most remarkable part of this narrative
(and there is nothing so very remarkable
in the story of n free man who is often
thrown into the society of a good and
beautiful woman falling in love with
her) and that which emphasizes the laci:
that truth is stranger than fiction.
One day there drew up before my
sister's door the well-kiiown e luipage of
one of the city's most successful banxers,
and from it alighted a gentleman who
eagerly requested to see Miss Adelle.
The resnlt of that visit was nothing-short
of t h e restoration of little Evato herpar-eate
and home, for she was provea
ta bf thf long-loat and sadly mourned
the Commodore's line, at such low term?
that he made a profit on every head.—
Argmiaut.
A qnail for Thirty Days.
When*it is learned that a sick child
has done what it has been contended foi
years an able-bodied man could not do
one popular fallacy will be exploded.
Says the Owen, (Ky.) Dmocrat:
"The se. en-ycar-old daugther of Mr.
8. D. Duvall has eaten one partridge pet
day for thirty consecutive days, the last
one being eaten Sunday. The little giri
bad 'jeen in delicate health Idt several
months, and had lost her appetite, Mr.
Durall agreeing to give her |25 if she
would eat the birds as stated above. H
is said that about the twenty-sixth day
the little girl said the partridge looked as
large as a turkey."
Iowa has 480 butter creameries and
sixty-six cheese factories.
iwtiver, thefea was ia'
lere regal ttaa
an the gddot flhailiaB,
n the reveaue of T
d her to disobey tiie
;:^and so all the i
- J and modesty of her nature
nsea up hite one sublime refusal. She
•SfLJl*. 8® into the banquet
Ahasuwus was
iMftlnatad; and Vashti. robbed of her po-sition
and her estate, is driven forth in
poverty and ruin to suffer the sx>m
of a nation, and yet to receive the
apptause of after generations, who
shall nse up to admire this martyr to
been destroyed, and fchcshan is a ruin; but
as J<»g as the world stands there will be
multitudes of men and women, familiar with
the Bible, who will come into this picture
gallery of Godandadmire thedivine portrait
^ VMhti the Queen. Vashti tiie veiled,
V ^ t i the sacrifice, VashU the silent
In tto firs-t place, I want you to look upon
VaAti the Queen. A blua ribbon, rayed
with white, di-awn around her forehead, in-dicated
her queenly portion. It wa? no
small honor to be oueen in such a i-ealm as
that Hark to the rustle of her robes! See
the blaze of her jewels! And yet, my frien is.
It IS not necessary to have palace and regal
robe in order to be queenly. When I see a
woman with stout faitii'in <3od, putting • her
foot upon all meanness, and selfishness, ani
g^ess display, going nght forward to serve
Chnst and the race by a grand and glorious
service, I say: "That woman is a queen,"
and the ranks of heaven loo'i over the
battlements upon . the corcmation; and
whether she come np from the shanty on
the commons or the mansion of the
fashionable squall, I gi-eet Oier with the
shout: "All hail! Queen Vashti." What
glory was there on the brow of Mary, of
Stotland; or Eliiabeth, of E n g l ^ ; or
Margaret, of France, or Catharine, of Rus-sia,
compared with the worth of some of our
Christian mothers, many of them gone into
glory?—or of that woman mentioned in the
tjcriptures, who put her all into ths Lord's
treasury?—or of Jephtbah's daughter, who
made a demonstration of unsel fi.sh patriotisnn *
—or of Abigail, who rfiscued the herds and
flocks of her husband?—or of Ruth, who
toiled under a tropical sim for poor, old,
he^dessKaomi?—or of Mrs. Adon^m Jud-son,
who kindled the lights of salvation amid
the darkness of Burmah or of Mrs. Hemans.
who poured out her whole sole in words
which will be forever associate:!' with
hunter's horn, and captive's chain, and
brid^ hour, and lute's throb, and curfew's
knell atthe dying day ?—and scores and hun
•FliEwKdi meib,
tit of w an
e^^l^^fmt: " Up! ai>I This is
rarfli or easlk
dreds ot women, unldiown on earth, who have given water to the thirsty, and bread to the
nngry, and medicine to the sick, and smiles
to ttie discouraged—their footsteps heard
ark lane, and in government hospital,
almshouse comdor, and by prison
iumda"
LordwIU deUver S t s d T i i K i iy
.And when women are ealM tp # ch
unite with the crackling lips of fever strueh
hospital and plague blotched lazaretto in
greetiiK her as she pasies: "Hail! hail!
QueeTVashtL"
Among the queens whom I honor are the
fenude day school teachers of this land. 1
put upon their brow the coronet They an
the sisters tmd the daughteih) of our towm
and dtiee, selected out of a vast number ol
applicant^ because of their especial into!
telectual and moral endowments. There an
in none of your homes women more worthy.
These persons, some of them, come out fron
afBuent homes, choosing teaching as a usefu
profession: othei-s, finding that father is older
than he used to bs, and that his eyesight and
strength are not as good as once, go to teach-ing
to lighten his load. But I tell you the
history of the majority of the female teach-ers
in the public schools when I say: "Father
is dead." After the estate was settled, the
f ^ i l y , thit were comfortable before, are
thrown on their own resources.
It is hard for men to earn a living In this
day, but it is harder for women—their health
not so rugged, their arms not so strong,
their opportunities fewer. These persons
after tremblingly going through tha ordead
c^ an examination as to their qualifications to
teach, half bewildered step over the sill of
the public school to do two thinp—instruct,
the young and earn their own bread. Her
work is wearing to the last degree. The
management of forty or fifty fidgety and in-tractable
childran, the suppression ot
their vices and the development of
their excellencies, the management of
rewards and punishments, the sending
of so many b ^ of soap and fine tooth
combs on bsnlgnant ministry, the breaking
of so many wild colte for the harness of life,
sends her home at night weak, neuralgic, un-strung,
so that all of the weary people in
your cities for five nighto of the week, there
are none mora weary than the public school
teacher*. ITow, for God's sake, give them a
oubloor-wOi^ and to such herete peaMons,
God prefHUtt them for it; and tbey nava iron
Ihthe'r soul, and lightuings in Oeir eys, and
whirlwinds in their breath, and die bonbwed
strength* of the Lord Omnipotent in their
right arm. Tney walk ttirou.^h furnaces as
though they ware h e d ^ of wild fiowers, ani
cross seas as though they wera shimmering
sapphire, ani all tite harpies (rf
hell sink down to their dun^^eons at
the stamp of their wometnly indigna-tion.
But these are exceptions. G«>ner^y
Dorcas would rather make a garment for the
poor boy; Rebecca woull rather fill the
trongh for the camels; Hannah woald rathw
•make a coat for Bamuel; the Hebrew maid
would rather give a prescription for Naa-man's
leprosy; the womu of Sarepta would
rather gather a few sticks to cook a meal for
famished Eliiah; Phoebs would rattier carry
\ letter for tha inspired Apostle; Mother Lofg
would rather educate Timo'hy ill the Script-ares.
When I see a woman ^oing about her
daily duty—with cheerful dignity presiding
at the table; with kind and gentle, but
firm, discipline presiiinz in the nurs-wy,
going out Into th3 world with-out
any b'a^-t of trumpet?, following
ill the footstep.^ of him who went
about doing good—I say: "Th^s is Vashti
with' a veil oa." But when I see a woman
of unblushing boldness, loud voiced, with a
tongue 'of infinite clitter clatter, with arro-gant
look, passing through tha streets with a
masculine swin^. gayiy arrayed in a very
hurricane of millineir. I ciy out: "Vashti
has lost her veil;" When I sea a woman
daughter ot no importance, and trying to
force her way up on into conspicuity, I say:
"Ah, what a pity! Vashti has lost her veil!"
AVhen I see a woman of comely features,
sn.l of—adroitness of intellect, and en-dowed
with all that tbe schools can
do for one, and of the bisth social
prsition, yet moving in society with super-ciliousaess
and hauteur, as though she would
have people know their place, and an nnde-iinei
combination of giggle, and stmt ami
i-odomontade, endowed with allopathic quan-
Ditiea of talk, butonly homceopathic infintesi-mals
of sense, the terror of' dry goods clerks
and railroad conductors, discoverers of sig-nificant
meaning in plain conversation,
p^igies of badinage and innuendo—I say:
^'.Vashti has lost her veiL"
But do not misinterpret what I say into a
depreciation of the work of these glorionii
and divinely called women who wUl not be
understood till after they are dead, women
like Susan B. Anthony, who are giving thiir
life for the improvement of the condition ot
their sex. Thosa of you that think that
women have under the laws of this country
an equal chance with men are ignorant of
the laws. A gentieman writes me from
Maryland, saymg: Take the laws ot this
state- A man and wife start out in life full
and the plaadlts ot h e a v ^ AJRtctfam, ea-daring
without any complaint the sharpness
6t the pang, and the violense ot the storm,
and the heR of the chain, and the darknsas
of the night—waiting until a divine hand
shall be put f t ^ h to sooth the pang, and
hush the storm, and rrieose the captive. A
wife abnsed, persecuted, and a perpetoal
exih from every earthly comfort—waiting,
waiting, until the Lord shall gather up hu
dear children iu a heavenly home, and nc
poor Vashti will ever be thrdst out from toe
palace gate Jesus, in silence, and answer
mg not a word, drinking the gall, bearing
thecro(^in prospect of the rapturous con
summation when—
AnAgndel *I wIhr' e hi thol« hcish atrhiorto nweh;e el,
Toen swept "itlr wli*" hups and inn}
The glorioD» work Is done.
An Arctic explorer found a
helplessly about amqng the icebeogs,
on board h» found that the capteii
was^zen at his log book, andthehehna
man was frozen at the wheel, to >
cumulating a fortune, but 'they have no
eMdren; they reach old age together, and
then the husband dies. What does the law
of tois State do then! It says to the widow:
'Hands off your late hnsbanVs property; do
not touch It; the State will fin I others to
whom it will give that; but you, the widow,
must not touch it, only so much as wUl keep
life witWn your aged body, that you may
hve to see those others enjoy what nghtfully
should be yonr own." And the Stata seeks
the r ^ t i v e s ot the deceased husband, whether
Jbsy be near or far, whether they were ever
beam of before or not, and transfers to them,
singly or collectively, the estata of the de-ceMed
husband and living wido-.v.
nST' " ® specimen of unjust laws in
all the rtates concerning womanhooii In-stead
of flying off to the discussion ai to
whether or not the giving o! the right of
voting to woman will correct these laws, let
mo say to men. be gtdlant enough, and fair
enough, and honsst enough, and righteous
enough, and God loving enough to correct
tbeso wrongs against women by your own
masculine vote. Bo not wait for woman
suffrage to come, if it ever does come, but sc
far as you can touch baUot boxes, and Legi»
iatures and Congresses begin the reforma
tiOn. But until justice is done to woman
bv the laws of all the States, let the women of
-America teke the platforms and the pulpits,
and no honorable man will charge Vashti
with having lest her veil.
-Again: 1 want you th's morning to con-rider
Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this that
Iseecomingoutof that palace gate of Shu-shan!
It seems to me that I have seen her
before. She comee homeless, honseleM,
friendlem. trulging alon? with a broken
heart Wlio is she? It U Vashti the sacra-fiee.
Oh, what a change it was from regal
position to a wayfarer's crust A little while
ago approved and sooght tor; now none so
them from their duty. -Their silence wat
louder than thunder. And this old ship of a
world has miny at their pasts in the awfifl
chill of neglect, and frozen of the irorld's
8:orn, and their silence shall be the eulogr
of the skies, and be rewarded long a f t o this
weatiior-beatan craft of a. planet, shah hav*
made ite last voyage. . „
I thank God that the mightest infiuenoe«
are the most silent The fires in a f u r n ^ c^
a factory, or of a steamship, roar thoub
they only move a few shutties or a few
thousand tons, but the sun that waraui •
world rises and setj without a crackle, oi
faintest sound. Travelers visiting Moral
^ t n a , having heard ot the glories of sunrte
onthat - " — ''
there
whenitctoe up „ _
anticipations "they actuaUy hissed it Th«
mightiest infinsuces to-day are like «m
planetary system—completely silent Don1
hiss the sun!
0, woman! do?s not this story of vashti
the queen, Vashii the veiled, Vashti the stu>
riflce, Vashti the silent, move your souli
sermon converges into the one absorbing
hope that none of you mtyr be shut out of the
palace gate of heaven. You can endure tte
hardships, and the privation*, and the
cruelties, and the mtsfortones ot this life, il
you can only gain admfsdon there. Throngli
blood of the everlasting covenant
gent boyiag; • carttfal
comparative tests,, and tiiwa
cultural crops mainly, ihcluding prtiT
tovs. Thii advice will aot how-ever,
whea wheat approximates | 1 a
bushel, or when soils a n largely de-ficient
in potash or phosphoric acid.
gol
arms of the enemy, and she sent word to then
that she would betray her city and surrendei
it to them if they wou'd only give her those
bracelets on their left arms. They accepte<l
the proffer, and by night this daughter ol
tha ruler ot the city opened one of the gat»
Tho army entered, and keeping then
promise, threw upon her their la^celets,
and also their shields, and under the RTMI
weight she died. Alas, that all through the
^ e s the same folly has been repeated, and
for the trinkets and glittermg treas-ures
of • this world men -anl women
swing open tho portals of their immortal
soul for aa everlasting surrender, and die
under the shining snbmergement
Through the rich grace of our Lord Jesuj
Christ may you be enabled to imitate ths
example of Rachel, and Hannah, and Abi-gail,
and Deborah, and Mary, and Vashti.
Amen!
ACCORDING to a rnssian paper, the
Woyoye Vremca, Miss Annette Ru
binstein is abont to get married, auO
her papa, Anton Bnbinstein, is now
busy collecting new treasures for t)ie
dowry cf his dear daughter. The
other day he preseated the oharminp
fiancee with a bpx (rf solid oak con
taining 2,000 small leaves of piroh-ment
The young lady received tho
gift with a look of surprise, and the
musician went on to say: "Preservj
this box with great care; its ya!u«
amqnnte to 20,000 florins There an
many people I know who wonld cheer
fully pay that price for i t * "Whatii
it, papa?" Annette inquired. With t
layftd smile the comQOser replied
"Each of these tic'^ets representa't
lesson on the piano which I intend k
give yonr first child."
•vHUa
Horses are frequently trocUed 'with
brittle hoofs, caused by deficiency of
'Water in the bone. This is caused in
various wsys—fever of the feet, or the
common founder, infiammation of the
interior of tho foot, exposure to ler-menting
manure or filthy stables, by
which the horn is satnrated with moist-ure
containing ammonia, leaving the
foot covered with mud; or even con-tinued
hot or dry weather or an un-healthy
condition of the system will
produce this trouble ia the feet. The
horn becomes dry and granulated, and
separates very easily, crumbling or
splintering away until there ii scarcely
crust enough left to fasten a shoe upon.
Tlie remedy is, of course, to nmoTe the
cause and restore the moiature. Fre-quent
washing of the feit with cold
water, with attention to tho health, and
to give the horse clean bedding and an
earth floor to stand upon, or else a deep
bed of sawdust, will prevent it or cure
it in. many .cases. Glycerine and water
iu equal parts are an excellent dressing
for the hoofs. An occasional soft feed,
as bran washed with a little linseed, is
also usefu', because it keeps the horse
iu good health and cooU Tar is some-times
used as a hoof dressing with ad-vantage,
but it needs caution in ite ap-plication.
The Sat-CaU la PMUSrr-mua.
O. a Bliss says in tho New York
Tribune: Tho best protection agaiust
rate and mice in the poultry-ruas ia a
good well-trained cat If it is prac-tically
impossible to exclude vermin of
this kind by building against them, aod
if by any art the runs are once cleared,
they are liable to become infested anew
almost any day. I do aot believe a
dozen rate have been bred on my prem-ises
iu as many years, and yet every little
while a colony of them put ia an-appear-ance.
But the poultry-house cat does
not permit any increase in numbers, and
the last member of the colony rarely
survives a week. Under my system oj
feeding there is always plenty of food
in the houio at all hours to tempt
them, and but for tho constant
watchfulness of the cat I have no doubt
I should be overrua with them as some
of my neighbors arj. Frequently s
single rat comes, appuently on a tout
of inspection. If ha gete well estab-
1 shed he is certain to ia some mannei
attract others. Twice I have known a
single rat to take possession of aa uuoc-cupied
summer pigpen in whidi a quan-tity
of old bcdJiug left over. They
were secure from cate but to' provided
with food. Ths first one came whea
there was j u i t snow enough so that his
tracks cbuld be a «n. Ho burrowed hia
way into the poultry-house and got hi«
colony establi.<ihfld
igaia lab i f r m i r l i b a bwMKif 1
hair to keef^ waiA IPM
h f t ' a a d gi«a ^ tolaiably haavyl
even coat ofoooMl^ earriaga varaWtu -
Tsmish is pat OB dm same at palit» a».~ ,
cept that it mast be rapidly ttd aai.
formly spread; Doat naa tka'
UU this work hat had «a l
perfectly hard."
CABBOT PUS. —Scrape^ a ^ hMl tea-dor
and rub through siewa qradffiMdafe
Take one table^ooaCal of aaa
egg, one cup of mlll^ aad nqtax^
spicea totasta. Giagar. aad
ot ginger and nntmeg ata ^ bas^t
to use.
TOXATO Sour.>-To one pM oC<
tomatoes, or four large raw OB«a tta§ vf
fine, add <»» quart of bomag vabK^aad
let them bott; then add oaa
of soda, oaa piat of smat milK
pel aad ploaty of bottab Whea ^
boib, add aij^t saull crackea^ ntHT
fine, salt to taste aad serve;
Pnaaa or BBASS. —O^E I,
Lima beaat soaked over a%ht
saiicepaa with boiliag snU
to taste. Add two wnoca InfeMt'^
carrot, one oaSaa, thrae. clovaa (IP
thyme, one laurel leaf, two O a m f l '^
garlic tied in a buachX boil aatS faft,'?'^
Drain the Hquid. Mash tha bipWr?
Dilute tvith tho liquid and ke«p ft tihl* <
thin. Press throngh a sieve. Retom
tlie puree to the saucepaa aad bett
again. Add a little more liquid if aee*
cssary. Skim well and fiaiih with bmt
ounces of butter, one teaqpooafal of
chopped parsley, oaa copfal of cerealiaa
flakes. Season to tasto i M Mnt^
minutes longer. Sarrei . Aiif'%i
above meatioaed rtgtiailm mi^^
omitted to taite. ' .
Hlstoriaa Baoeraftfs Lvagtmf^,
Mr. Osorge Bmcroft aeco«a^^..
bis owa lougevity tho other
three reasons: First, that ha
middle child ia hi« faths/a-rqually
distant from t h e yoaagert; 1
oldest; second, that ha had
l{one to bed at ten o'clock,. Qaftfia.1
been impossible; aad, third,
had spent four hours ia eadh i
open air, unless prevented bf
He added that his riliag,
newspapers had aaado m teitt^
primarily for the purpeeo
of doors, and aot ot bebi^
back. '
A Wilb-a A a s i a%
HuiUnd (impaUeatly)-~«8
killei" would strike thi»
find plenty of work to d oP
Wife—"isthera s m ^ tf i
Husband—"Of coorsa I
Wife (with a w i a ^ J - ' T l ^?
hope, John, that j t » wfll htJP
tttL"-{aiftiagfc
Pioaperity
is a greater. Tamm^l-mind;
primrtkm-
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THE BLOOM OF LONG AGO
^ ^ H««r Oft lOoastbeTuiifhBi past,
6tai witb Tfaelinw ot yoath a ^ w ,
S|iriac the flown that faded fut—
The soented bkwm ot long ago!
Whan IB tte heart that woold tarKofe
HW mile, the look, the wannembraoel
Amid the yean we treasure j e t
Tkeeontoor of the flitted taoe.
Deip la the labyrinth of tinM,
Hiachievoas shino blade crei and Use:
And fairy fingen beat a rbyme
OB COIN'S bow for me and yocu
I find a kttar hidden long
FVom aoininer'% sun and winter^B snow,
Aad to it eUngs a ohen^ed aong
llMt kMps the tone of long aga
Wa Bvrcr quite forget the joya
Beoorded on life^ primal page;
Tbe k n g h t * gay o( girls and boys
M b sweetly on the ean ot age.
' Aenm a path stiU bright and fair,
AchiMitswinging toand tro;
And meaaety twinas in golden hair,
- TtelovdybkMaiot longaga
Tha WHicaoiight by ns to-day
bother yean was grandly song;
Tin tea ttet flite across ate wny
W« nflen fcisnd wh«a we wan yooBg.
ft h tiw hand we cannot see
That leads na, when the son k km,
Back to the menory hasnted ka
Bieh with the blooai of long aga
Goatea to a e , for itis tnn,
loaraiMit what yoor station be,
I^Btaomewhere there's a lyeD for yon—
A i|ieO of love and fanta^r*
i n » has not fait a v a n iM
Tloach hk at twiligfaVs g e n i l e i ^ .
Or seen eneige from sbadowhnf-
A sweetheartoC the hmg agol -
BIpckeyw end bine! 0!whafe%%^
They weave for all who own teir sway!
where k he whose son^ can tea
OB»4>a)f ttie conning they
Ttay are the nulesbmes at tke road
Wa tiead to where the waten flow
Mwsm OS a i ^ tiie veiled abode-
^Bayana tfaetovM of long ago.
—T. a. BwiangK
THE DIAMOND CRESCENT,
TIM day was bitter ccld, and the
crowds konTing &long Broadway tamed
Mitberto r ^ n o r to left in dieir haste
t» nacih hoiM aod the comforts of -the
fireside.
I WW ahtuig in my office on fite
^groond floor, watdiinff the restles people
• o d iftikwo^iiang as I have a habit of
^Ji^xmlhe aiffctences in human
( - ^ n n y atteatioa was sod-treadiY
apon
d b m n d cnioeittdf
Befoi« 1
^ b s c v l p t i o i i
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
i n A d v a n < » e *
ERSFIELD S o ^ b a o v i p t l f m
ONE DOLLAR A TEAR,
i n A d i r a n o o *
VOLUME 11.
while teadiing music in my native vil-lage
in the West it happened that one
winter's night some years since—a night
not unlike what this promises to bo—my
father and I were startled by moans at
our windows. Investigation shoWed a
woman and child. Both were Bearly
frozen, and the woman, once in the
h e a t ^ loom, swooned. We summoned
a physician, but she recovered consc ous-ness
only to lose it a ^ i a until we found
that she was dying. Toward the
last ^ e poor creature muttered wildly
and inc battlements upon this metrop-ohs
of Persia. In connecUiHi with
palace thM« is a gardai, wh?rc
^ o ttughty nien of tic«^gn Uinds are
WUed a a banqu«i Under the spread ot
oak, abd Und«i, and acacia, the tables aro ai^
The brrath of honeysuckle and
the air. Fountains leap n
spray struck through wit!
fills up
hght, the with,
lainbows faUing in crystalline bapKsm upon
into the]
flpwwing shrubs-then
c h m ^ ol marble, a n d ^ e n i n g o u t h^
^ th«e into pools swirling With the finny
t n b « of fl, olff or her slander jtorsej given Utwally
h u n d r ^ ot dd'JM f ^ i M destitate who
came dader her observation as a school
teachefc A ddoeised Aster's children were
throwA np^n Uw hands, and she to(dE care ot
thran. ISbe^aklndnlothertothem, while
she mofheted the whole school: Worn out
with wirainginthesickand dying room of
one otithe household, she hersalt came to die.
d the school book and at the same
volume of her Christian fiddity; and
»went through the gates they cried:
are they who came out ot great tribu-id
had their rob^ washed and made
SebhMdof the Limb."
ftre a U s t t ^ and the world
' I them of not, Headed tcknowl-
W—h en Soartoil,, the wit and
a S h a . i ^ briUtant, was
a ^ V ^ I M ^ Itrae: d« MUilteMi be. Was
Rsked^by the notary what he proposed to
8ettie';i{^n (nadeii^oiseUe. The reply was:
"ImiiAetehty! The names of the wives ot
klnga'die with them; the name of th6 wife of
Sjartto will Uve always." Inahigtoand
aens\upon all wom-si who do their
Ml will settle immortalityt Kotth^
lity of earthly tame, which is mor-the
immortality e e l e ^ . And they
torever and ever! Oh.theopportu-
I every woman has ot bdi
MT.t live the more I adi
tag a queen!
Imira good
And I have oome to (drm my
ot tfattdiaracterat aman bylUsap
nreoistton o^ non-&i4trecia13on ot woman.
It a wan A depressed idetl ol womanly
(AaniAer be is a bad man, and there is tto
exoei^oa to this rule. The Writinfftof Ooethe
ean Mter have any stleh attitetiou tor me as
BhahNiearei be &naeiMarljlr all thi
d)ar#iE^ of the gfi^dt 0«rmart nave S'>me
kind'-Of . tdipitadd. THera is his Mariana
Anrelia of m»ny intrigues, and his
the termagant, anl h's Melina the
.aul his Baronrss, and his Count-ess,
•nd.thei'O. is seldom a womanly charac-ter-
r in all bis voluminous writing
thaVMbuld be wortlty of residoice m
a eeapecteble coal cellar, yet pict-ured
Md dramittiel, and emblazoned
till an the litjrarvworld is' compelled to S3e.
No,{^l Give m'e Wi Jiam Shakespsare's idea
ot^i^4Ui; an 11 sea it ki Deademona, and
CoiWia, and fio3ai:Md, and Imogen, apd
H e ' ^ jind liend^on^, aild Viola, and tia
b7lWand Sylvia, w d Ferdita, all df them
Wits enough faults to prove tl
bat«ougfa kindly characteristics to give us
the jhfthor's idea ot womanhood, hU.Lady
M a ^ t h only a dark Itackgroand to bring
onClhesnpreme loveliness of his other female
the _
_ ^ woman of Amsri^a! rise to your op-poHwity.
Ba no slave to pri Je, or woriiUi-iiWJ,"
or s ^ Why ever crawl in the dust
whea yon can mo-ant a thron?f Be-queens
unib God forarer. Hail Vashti!
A^ain:-1 want you to consider Vashti the
vajfa,!. Had she appeared beroreAhashnerns
a a l m court on thatday, with her face un-id,
(he would havadMcked alt
ot Oi^iehta} s:d«ty, juid the'MlyliiMi
Aeirintoxl^tioit £iilanda4«M —
t h ^ sober momente
her^ Assome flowfflts 81
Jineand lathe ta
poor as toicknowIedgeheiraoqtUlntvicedtip
Vashti the ^Mrifice. Ah, you and I have
seen it itUny. a timei. Here Is a home emptl-aced
witb beaiitf. llIKthilt refinement,
and bodks, ani wealfH ca« do for
that home has been done; bttt -Ahs^^
nerus, the husband and the father, is tak-ing
hold on paths of s ' a He is gradually
g^ngdown. After a while hewillfloander
and strugrg> like ft wild beast in fia hunter'<
net-—further a w v from (lol, further away
from the right. Soon the bright apparel of
the children will turn torogs; soon the houw-hoM
song will become the sobbincot a broken
heart The old story ov-
fodt i & l t g i f ^ i and. w:th a blasting, b'i:
NO. 10.
FOB FARM AND 6AB0BN.
OM SkM^lV** BMIMM*.
Many larmerj keep old sheep too long,
or ttntU they are so-old that they fail to
return good profits. A writer on the
subject sensibly advises that fanaera
should not purchase old sheep under any
circumstances, but should fatten and
i sell to tha butcher every old sheep
which may be in their flocks. Old
sheep which have even partially good
teeth may be'fattened at a profit, but it
is a losing business to keep such sheep
in the flock, and the best sheep-famen
will pick out all sachanimaU fatten
and sell them as soon M praetloaUe.
JBnrteivOMMi
Aa Eo^ish dairyman, I h Geotge
Simpson, hat found to his CMt, Ihat t l»
uiual practice of drying co&tiwMWS
milkers, giving from t w d r t to aixtetn
- lustcad of trying to dry cowBgiyiag
large quantitiee of milk, he now finds it
Oh the women and men Of sacritfcs ara
eoing to take the brightest coronabof haaven!
This woman ot the text gave no pa!atial resi-
Belle, burning on the Mis^ippi river.
Blndso, the engineer, declared he would keep
the bow of the boat to the shore tilt a'l were
off, and he kept his promise. At his posN
scorched and blackened, he perished, but Ire
saved all the passengers. Two versee of pa- I
thetic po3try describe the scene, but ths
verses are a littia rough, and so I changed a
word OP two;
Throngh Ue hot bltok breath of the bnmlag
Jim wad'o'* voice wa* heard,
. AS I Bar all had tra!4 In his MabbomtM,
^ And knew lie keep his word.
Am n n ' i 7«a*te (tofa t hn aU got off
AFOM the Smokestacks N9!
j^M Bladao'k Aott Went nft aturei
Id thtf Smoke of the Prsble BdM
He weren't no (iinti bnt^at Jcdjmelit
I'd mn mr chance wtta JitB,
LonKilAe of tome plont tantiemes
That wonMnt ihaka handi with him.
HeM Eeen his doty, a dead tare thing.
And went for It thats and then,
Aod Christ Is not Kohij; to IM too hard
On a man that died for men.
Once more: I want you to look at VaAti
thesilent. Yon do not hear any outcry from
this woman as die goes forth from the palace
gatei I'rom the very dignity of har nature
^ kit
test. The next oae wai roiled a* lOM
as his presecoa was diieovered aad the
eat caught blm ia tha fletd. Bat a rat-cat
is dMrt-Uved aad a poultry, bmmi
cat reqaires special traiaiag. Whea
a y preeent young oat w«t iatraiueed t»
her charge, her firet act waa to t M k a
young ehtckea, bat she wna kiadly
persuaded to let it go vaiajarei.
A Uttte paina were takea to shew
her all tho ehiekeas aad tha*
they beloaged there, aad she aovar
• a a ^ t aaotiier. Cat-doors ia th» doora
adiatt her ta tlM itabtaa f M a t t t f M lb
try-hooM^ and sftagtaMda MMTMIIIIIB
aad all plMes w t e a g n t a b l A M*
baa all tba prMlagw ot UM H M M ^ Ik
the daytime, goeaaad camm •tyliMMi^
b a t a t a i ^ t a b a i s a i w a y a o a d a t g ^ Site
isoa familiar t m s with tH OaMi*
malsaadniba haiMlfagaiM* OckMa
as she moTe* aboot the hooM u awee»
cernedly n ifaiaai tka l « | i UuKf
member of the Ihmilf who pmhrnt
She is tquany at homa on tha baok aT a
cow or hona or ia a toekla^dmir I9
the flre. Bot w«« to tba talk w m a n
that veatorea iate W domialaa. Qjto
iswortkmore AuT a nagaa IMA «l
trapa aad a sbapfol o i;
An nihtoii ffeimer tayt la
York World: "Ftem i*ag«i
tha
laaad
occasiaaalrepaiBtiag I f f ^ B O fWtfMi
battopreMrretlwm. Tkh k ft
•ay bandy maa o* b«y caa do i a WMR
Unc. Begia by t h o t o v ^ y ahtaiag
the wagoa aad gettiag all g M * oS
Ihohaba. Wherapaiaft fa n H i f l f r atf
smooth dowa with aad old
tha whole wagoa with
yoahaTe a a k a o M O ^ M r r k a i tkiw.
let t h e wagoa a p oa baam plMtd'
der the ules» dart it aMft
lopaiat. For tba m a i i i f fHk
wheeh chooaa a fsod, •Ii»ii1lii|
colors with whilahad for
boy tha colon OmtaoM s m ^
tad pot ia t i a bniHk
mixed ai t U ahaip vVit
a littia
wd
- ^ J t
n e ^ ^ l d k i i d e r a s n o t
. j a t o Botioeia my first g ^ c e that Im^
gsmeats, a i l i o u ^ •crapnlonsly neat,
were lar from expensive, nevertiieless an
-asaocountable excitcment took posses-sion
of me,aDd I ntdied to her assistance,
demanding of the officer authoritativ^,
*'UpoB what charge do you make this
a r r e s tr
Insfiautivdy teoogalzii^a friend, the
tenified child besought nte aot to allow
tiu officer to take lier to jail.
"Look at that pin, the litde thief.'"
tiie officer said rov^ly, making a move-jaeat
to drag the e into my oSice while we
b t e use
'Halloo!"-and "Hurrah" have curious
origins attributed vo them. It is said
e n o u ^ to secure pupils in a grsat city I by the author of the "Queen's English''
likeJCew York, but alas! from bitter cx-{that the people of Charnwood forest,
perience she had learned that this com- { Leicx;stershife, when Ihey desire to hail
mercial Mecca towards which so many ; a person at a distance, call out, not "hal-young
aapirante for success turn their | loo!" but "hailoup!" This he imagines
ffooootteetteeppss held but disappointment for is a survival of the t'mes when one cried
her. to another, "a loup! a laup!"or as we
a loan, and I, f n turn, p r o m i s e d her i P?n«iise,J which s gnifies ttat all sol-pupils
from among my f r i e n d s , t a k i n g i d'^rs who fell fighting valiantly went
5pon myihonlders the doubtful task of i straight to heaven. "Prithee" obvi-coercingallthc
fathere and mothere of ously » corruption of " I pray thee;"
my acquaintance into giving their chil- T^^ile "marry" was originally in Pohsh-dren
over to her training, beginning with! tipes » method of swear ng by the Yir-my
own married sister. And it was' g>«» M a r y . « / < « Tw/
fortunate that I made my beginnins;'
there, else it is probable that I should
have miserably failed in my undertak-ing,
for my sister—^Mrs. Merwln—^in-formed
mc scornfully when I laid my plan
before h e r : ' 'I cannot be thankful enough,
Tom, that I am the first one to whom
you unfold your Quixotic scheme, for
lid be more ruinous to a
Jim risk's Dodge.
Years ago when the New York Central
and Erie railroads were engaged in a
diesperate and destructive battle of cut
rates, Jim Fisk played a shrewd dodge
on Commodore Vanderbilt. The freight
rates from Chicago to New York city
nothing coulu -- - j were so low that there was no profit in
girl's prospects, situated as Miss Adelle] transportation. Fisk seized the golden
is, than to have a bachelor like yourself opportunity to buy catte; shipped the
c.ittle over the Commodore's road, and
so blocked the Commodore's transporta-tion
facilities that the Central -wai
obliged to refuse all other freight. Fisk
then put up the priece of freight on the
Erie, and was not only able to do a lu-crative
businfss while the Central was
carrying cows at a loss, but he was also
going around advocating her causc.
Just take me to see the girl, and if she
is not a mere adventuress you may count
upon my doing what I can for her."
That my sister was wholly satisfied
with Miss Adelle will go without the
saying when I. tell you that she took her
lurae within the week as musical gover-to
her own children, and personally , able to get his cows to the market, via
solidted patronage for her among the
"dear 500 friend*."
Iniem than three months from the day
that I first discovered Eva, Miss Adelle
found herself with more work upon her
hands thslu she could easily-attend to,'
and I found myself—but no, I will tell
yon about that later, for now comes the
most remarkable part of this narrative
(and there is nothing so very remarkable
in the story of n free man who is often
thrown into the society of a good and
beautiful woman falling in love with
her) and that which emphasizes the laci:
that truth is stranger than fiction.
One day there drew up before my
sister's door the well-kiiown e luipage of
one of the city's most successful banxers,
and from it alighted a gentleman who
eagerly requested to see Miss Adelle.
The resnlt of that visit was nothing-short
of t h e restoration of little Evato herpar-eate
and home, for she was provea
ta bf thf long-loat and sadly mourned
the Commodore's line, at such low term?
that he made a profit on every head.—
Argmiaut.
A qnail for Thirty Days.
When*it is learned that a sick child
has done what it has been contended foi
years an able-bodied man could not do
one popular fallacy will be exploded.
Says the Owen, (Ky.) Dmocrat:
"The se. en-ycar-old daugther of Mr.
8. D. Duvall has eaten one partridge pet
day for thirty consecutive days, the last
one being eaten Sunday. The little giri
bad 'jeen in delicate health Idt several
months, and had lost her appetite, Mr.
Durall agreeing to give her |25 if she
would eat the birds as stated above. H
is said that about the twenty-sixth day
the little girl said the partridge looked as
large as a turkey."
Iowa has 480 butter creameries and
sixty-six cheese factories.
iwtiver, thefea was ia'
lere regal ttaa
an the gddot flhailiaB,
n the reveaue of T
d her to disobey tiie
;:^and so all the i
- J and modesty of her nature
nsea up hite one sublime refusal. She
•SfLJl*. 8® into the banquet
Ahasuwus was
iMftlnatad; and Vashti. robbed of her po-sition
and her estate, is driven forth in
poverty and ruin to suffer the sx>m
of a nation, and yet to receive the
apptause of after generations, who
shall nse up to admire this martyr to
been destroyed, and fchcshan is a ruin; but
as JI This is
rarfli or easlk
dreds ot women, unldiown on earth, who have given water to the thirsty, and bread to the
nngry, and medicine to the sick, and smiles
to ttie discouraged—their footsteps heard
ark lane, and in government hospital,
almshouse comdor, and by prison
iumda"
LordwIU deUver S t s d T i i K i iy
.And when women are ealM tp # ch
unite with the crackling lips of fever strueh
hospital and plague blotched lazaretto in
greetiiK her as she pasies: "Hail! hail!
QueeTVashtL"
Among the queens whom I honor are the
fenude day school teachers of this land. 1
put upon their brow the coronet They an
the sisters tmd the daughteih) of our towm
and dtiee, selected out of a vast number ol
applicant^ because of their especial into!
telectual and moral endowments. There an
in none of your homes women more worthy.
These persons, some of them, come out fron
afBuent homes, choosing teaching as a usefu
profession: othei-s, finding that father is older
than he used to bs, and that his eyesight and
strength are not as good as once, go to teach-ing
to lighten his load. But I tell you the
history of the majority of the female teach-ers
in the public schools when I say: "Father
is dead." After the estate was settled, the
f ^ i l y , thit were comfortable before, are
thrown on their own resources.
It is hard for men to earn a living In this
day, but it is harder for women—their health
not so rugged, their arms not so strong,
their opportunities fewer. These persons
after tremblingly going through tha ordead
c^ an examination as to their qualifications to
teach, half bewildered step over the sill of
the public school to do two thinp—instruct,
the young and earn their own bread. Her
work is wearing to the last degree. The
management of forty or fifty fidgety and in-tractable
childran, the suppression ot
their vices and the development of
their excellencies, the management of
rewards and punishments, the sending
of so many b ^ of soap and fine tooth
combs on bsnlgnant ministry, the breaking
of so many wild colte for the harness of life,
sends her home at night weak, neuralgic, un-strung,
so that all of the weary people in
your cities for five nighto of the week, there
are none mora weary than the public school
teacher*. ITow, for God's sake, give them a
oubloor-wOi^ and to such herete peaMons,
God prefHUtt them for it; and tbey nava iron
Ihthe'r soul, and lightuings in Oeir eys, and
whirlwinds in their breath, and die bonbwed
strength* of the Lord Omnipotent in their
right arm. Tney walk ttirou.^h furnaces as
though they ware h e d ^ of wild fiowers, ani
cross seas as though they wera shimmering
sapphire, ani all tite harpies (rf
hell sink down to their dun^^eons at
the stamp of their wometnly indigna-tion.
But these are exceptions. G«>ner^y
Dorcas would rather make a garment for the
poor boy; Rebecca woull rather fill the
trongh for the camels; Hannah woald rathw
•make a coat for Bamuel; the Hebrew maid
would rather give a prescription for Naa-man's
leprosy; the womu of Sarepta would
rather gather a few sticks to cook a meal for
famished Eliiah; Phoebs would rattier carry
\ letter for tha inspired Apostle; Mother Lofg
would rather educate Timo'hy ill the Script-ares.
When I see a woman ^oing about her
daily duty—with cheerful dignity presiding
at the table; with kind and gentle, but
firm, discipline presiiinz in the nurs-wy,
going out Into th3 world with-out
any b'a^-t of trumpet?, following
ill the footstep.^ of him who went
about doing good—I say: "Th^s is Vashti
with' a veil oa." But when I see a woman
of unblushing boldness, loud voiced, with a
tongue 'of infinite clitter clatter, with arro-gant
look, passing through tha streets with a
masculine swin^. gayiy arrayed in a very
hurricane of millineir. I ciy out: "Vashti
has lost her veil;" When I sea a woman
daughter ot no importance, and trying to
force her way up on into conspicuity, I say:
"Ah, what a pity! Vashti has lost her veil!"
AVhen I see a woman of comely features,
sn.l of—adroitness of intellect, and en-dowed
with all that tbe schools can
do for one, and of the bisth social
prsition, yet moving in society with super-ciliousaess
and hauteur, as though she would
have people know their place, and an nnde-iinei
combination of giggle, and stmt ami
i-odomontade, endowed with allopathic quan-
Ditiea of talk, butonly homceopathic infintesi-mals
of sense, the terror of' dry goods clerks
and railroad conductors, discoverers of sig-nificant
meaning in plain conversation,
p^igies of badinage and innuendo—I say:
^'.Vashti has lost her veiL"
But do not misinterpret what I say into a
depreciation of the work of these glorionii
and divinely called women who wUl not be
understood till after they are dead, women
like Susan B. Anthony, who are giving thiir
life for the improvement of the condition ot
their sex. Thosa of you that think that
women have under the laws of this country
an equal chance with men are ignorant of
the laws. A gentieman writes me from
Maryland, saymg: Take the laws ot this
state- A man and wife start out in life full
and the plaadlts ot h e a v ^ AJRtctfam, ea-daring
without any complaint the sharpness
6t the pang, and the violense ot the storm,
and the heR of the chain, and the darknsas
of the night—waiting until a divine hand
shall be put f t ^ h to sooth the pang, and
hush the storm, and rrieose the captive. A
wife abnsed, persecuted, and a perpetoal
exih from every earthly comfort—waiting,
waiting, until the Lord shall gather up hu
dear children iu a heavenly home, and nc
poor Vashti will ever be thrdst out from toe
palace gate Jesus, in silence, and answer
mg not a word, drinking the gall, bearing
thecro(^in prospect of the rapturous con
summation when—
AnAgndel *I wIhr' e hi thol« hcish atrhiorto nweh;e el,
Toen swept "itlr wli*" hups and inn}
The glorioD» work Is done.
An Arctic explorer found a
helplessly about amqng the icebeogs,
on board h» found that the capteii
was^zen at his log book, andthehehna
man was frozen at the wheel, to >
cumulating a fortune, but 'they have no
eMdren; they reach old age together, and
then the husband dies. What does the law
of tois State do then! It says to the widow:
'Hands off your late hnsbanVs property; do
not touch It; the State will fin I others to
whom it will give that; but you, the widow,
must not touch it, only so much as wUl keep
life witWn your aged body, that you may
hve to see those others enjoy what nghtfully
should be yonr own." And the Stata seeks
the r ^ t i v e s ot the deceased husband, whether
Jbsy be near or far, whether they were ever
beam of before or not, and transfers to them,
singly or collectively, the estata of the de-ceMed
husband and living wido-.v.
nST' " ® specimen of unjust laws in
all the rtates concerning womanhooii In-stead
of flying off to the discussion ai to
whether or not the giving o! the right of
voting to woman will correct these laws, let
mo say to men. be gtdlant enough, and fair
enough, and honsst enough, and righteous
enough, and God loving enough to correct
tbeso wrongs against women by your own
masculine vote. Bo not wait for woman
suffrage to come, if it ever does come, but sc
far as you can touch baUot boxes, and Legi»
iatures and Congresses begin the reforma
tiOn. But until justice is done to woman
bv the laws of all the States, let the women of
-America teke the platforms and the pulpits,
and no honorable man will charge Vashti
with having lest her veil.
-Again: 1 want you th's morning to con-rider
Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this that
Iseecomingoutof that palace gate of Shu-shan!
It seems to me that I have seen her
before. She comee homeless, honseleM,
friendlem. trulging alon? with a broken
heart Wlio is she? It U Vashti the sacra-fiee.
Oh, what a change it was from regal
position to a wayfarer's crust A little while
ago approved and sooght tor; now none so
them from their duty. -Their silence wat
louder than thunder. And this old ship of a
world has miny at their pasts in the awfifl
chill of neglect, and frozen of the irorld's
8:orn, and their silence shall be the eulogr
of the skies, and be rewarded long a f t o this
weatiior-beatan craft of a. planet, shah hav*
made ite last voyage. . „
I thank God that the mightest infiuenoe«
are the most silent The fires in a f u r n ^ c^
a factory, or of a steamship, roar thoub
they only move a few shutties or a few
thousand tons, but the sun that waraui •
world rises and setj without a crackle, oi
faintest sound. Travelers visiting Moral
^ t n a , having heard ot the glories of sunrte
onthat - " — ''
there
whenitctoe up „ _
anticipations "they actuaUy hissed it Th«
mightiest infinsuces to-day are like «m
planetary system—completely silent Don1
hiss the sun!
0, woman! do?s not this story of vashti
the queen, Vashii the veiled, Vashti the stu>
riflce, Vashti the silent, move your souli
sermon converges into the one absorbing
hope that none of you mtyr be shut out of the
palace gate of heaven. You can endure tte
hardships, and the privation*, and the
cruelties, and the mtsfortones ot this life, il
you can only gain admfsdon there. Throngli
blood of the everlasting covenant
gent boyiag; • carttfal
comparative tests,, and tiiwa
cultural crops mainly, ihcluding prtiT
tovs. Thii advice will aot how-ever,
whea wheat approximates | 1 a
bushel, or when soils a n largely de-ficient
in potash or phosphoric acid.
gol
arms of the enemy, and she sent word to then
that she would betray her city and surrendei
it to them if they wou'd only give her those
bracelets on their left arms. They accepte-To one pM oC<
tomatoes, or four large raw OB«a tta§ vf
fine, add